Status Updates From The Sin of Certainty: Why G...

“It is so easy to slip into right thinking mode that we have arrived at full faith. We know what church God goes to, what bible translation God prefers, how God votes, what movies God watches, and what books God reads, we know the kinds of people God approves of. God has winners and losers, and we are the winners, the true insiders. God likes all the things we like. We speak for God, and think nothing of it.”

Doubting God is painful and frightening because we believe we are leaving god behind, when in fact, we are only leaving behind ideas about god that we are used to surrounding ourselves with. The small God, the God within our control, the God who moves in our circles, the God who agrees with us.”

Just came to this:
“Doubt means spiritual relocation is happening. It’s God’s way of saying, ‘Time to move on.’”

This is pretty much this book in a nutshell. Enns doesn’t acknowledge any other possible sources or data and pushes his own narrative. Couldn’t doubt also be from, say, the exact opposite of God? Couldn’t it just be from unfounded neuroses? He won’t mention these, of course.

I do hope he’s building to something good here. So far this book makes Satan beam with delight.

This book isn’t very good so far. He’s kind of all over the place, and his goal seems more to incite and poke than to actually help anyone learn anything.

I expected this going into the book, and I truly am reading with an open mind. But there isn’t much of value here yet. He still has time to get to it - mostly because I’m cheap and bought this book instead of borrowing it. Gotta get my money’s worth!